Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Looking forward to TADW 2014

Happy New Year, everyone!

The holidays have been celebrated, the Spring semester is
beginning, and we at the Teenage Drama Workshop are already working hard to
prepare for this summer’s productions. We are happy to share that we have already sold out one performance to a camp! The TADW staff has had several
production meetings to develop our 2014 program.

TADW staff plotting grand schemes for the 2014 season

And what are these productions, you might ask?

Good question!

Our 2014 season will include:

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Directed by Ray Saar

With Choreography by Candy Sherwin

And Musical Direction by Diane Ketchie

Cirque des Pirates

An original musical comedy by Ronnie Sperling and Chris
Halsted

With Choreography by Lindsey Lorenz

Ten Minute Play FestivalWith original plays by TADW student playwrightsAnd we introduce a groundbreaking new production!...Joining the Spectrum: A
Collaborative Play about InclusionStaged by artists from The Miracle Project Led by director Elaine Hall and her
award winning staffThe
play will be created by the students with The Miracle Project team using
theatre games, exercises, improvisation, and storytelling techniques to generate the script. Approximately 15 teens with disabilities will partner with 15 non-disabled peers to perform in what promises to be a transformative experience for all.

Along with the new addition of Joining the Spectrum, we have a few other exciting changes in store for the summer of 2014, including:

An Improv Comedy Night on Thursday, June 26th at 7:00 pm for students in the Improv elective to show off their skills!

Innovative changes to our annual Ten Minute Play Festival!

We’ve already had a fabulous early enrollment for this
coming summer, but we still have room for more students!

As many of you know, TADW students include not just
performers, but technical theatre students as well. This summer we will
continue to develop our tech/design program and are always looking for students
going into grades 9 and higher to join our excellent tech/design crew. For more
information on this program, please see http://www.csun.edu/tadw/images/TADW_TechnicalWorkshop.pdf.

If you haven’t
enrolled yet and would like to join us, you can still take advantage of en
early enrollment discount of $200 off tuition if you enroll by March 1, 2014.
You can enroll online at www.csun.edu/tadw.
So, are you excited for TADW 2014 yet? Well, you can get a taste of the summer to come at our

Annual Teenage Drama Workshop Meet & Greet

April 27th, 2014

1:00 PM

In the Organ Room of Nordhoff Hall at Cal State Northridge

Come see old friends, and meet new ones!

Find out more about our upcoming productions!

Ask questions! Get answers!

Meet TADW faculty and staff!

We hope you're all as excited about this summer's Teenage Drama Workshop as we are. See you at the Meet & Greet!*

*Please excuse all the exclamation points in this blog post. I can't help it; I really mean them!

About TADW

Welcome to the Teenage Drama Workshop at California State University, Northridge. The Teenage Drama Workshop (TADW) is a six-week, intensive summer workshop for young people interested in theatre. In fact, it is the longest-running workshop of its kind in the nation. Through the program, students receive intensive training in the areas of acting, dance, and voice, or technical theatre arts (costume, stagecraft, lighting and sound). The students form a theatre company and stage two productions (a musical and a play), as well as a festival of student-written short plays, and a showcase of music theatre repertoire. For more info, visit our website at http://www.csun.edu/tadw